SMALL FORMAT has NOT Arrived.

Post by **jpolzfuss** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 12:13 pm

Hi,

stupid question: what's the "normal" first stop in the USA for parcels, magazines, letters from Europe? New Orleans? Houston? ...endless list of other evacuated towns...

JÃƒÂ¶rg

Post by **sooper8fan** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 12:16 pm

npcoombs wrote:

What a sad bunch, massaging each others fragile egos

"Chill out" on what the others said.....I'm with you, man! (don't worry guys, I'm still on your side, but if Flunkmaster Flake wants to post pointless thoughts then I want to play too!)

Post by **tlatosmd** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 12:34 pm

jpolzfuss wrote:Hi,

stupid question: what's the "normal" first stop in the USA for parcels, magazines, letters from Europe? New Orleans? Houston? ...endless list of other evacuated towns...

JÃƒÂ¶rg

*has a horrible vision of thousands of copies of small format being looted* 8O

Post by **mattias** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 12:34 pm

jpolzfuss wrote:stupid question: what's the "normal" first stop in the USA for parcels, magazines, letters from Europe? New Orleans? Houston?

it's about as far from maine to new orleans as it is from rotterdam to maine. my guess would be they ship it to the north east somewhere and then by train or truck.

/matt

Post by **Angus** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 12:59 pm

Surface mail to/from the USA really does take anything up to seven weeks. Having moved there and back, and having family there we send packages to/from the UK and the northwest and midwest states quite frequently.

I am told there is a special "book rate" but I don't think it works out much cheaper....and in any case it is only for surface mail.

Air mail isn't as expensive as you'd expect...but it isn't cheap either.

Post by **Evan Kubota** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 3:29 pm

FWIW - it actually does take a fairly long time for packages from Germany to the US via surface mail. I bought a Nizo on German eBay that took 7 or 8 weeks, and the seller did ship it immediately after the auction. What you're experiencing with these magazines is probably the relative slowness of the German post, not any fault with the turnaround time on the part of the distributor.

Post by **MovieStuff** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 3:47 pm

The time for shipping by boat has little to do with actual transit time. Shipping by boat uses containerized shipping (those large metal boxes that you see cranes stacking on top of each other at the docks). They will not seal up a container unless it is absolutely full because the shipper pays for the volume of space the container takes up on the ship, even if the container is empty. So when you ship something by boat, there can be a delay of several weeks while they fill up the rest of the container that your particular package is in. In the mean time, other boats leave on a regular basis.

Roger

Post by **Angus** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 4:08 pm

Roger,

That is probably why they quote 6-8 weeks...your package might go across the pond the next day or it might sit there for a couple of weeks.

I remember when we moved, we mailed lots of boxes from Boise to the UK...over a four day period - often sending three boxes in any given transatcion.

Some arrived after four weeks, others took six or seven...and there seemed no correlation between when an item was sent and when it arrived. Boxes franked on the same day might arrive three weeks apart.

Not a problem as we weren't going for speed, but rather economy...but an observation worth noting with regard to Small Format magazines.

Also it has been my observation that post-9/11 the USPS international shipping has been less consistent. It could be that a percentage of international mail is being diverted for x-raying or other checks. Curiosuly when we shipped a large box of VHS tapes from Boise to the UK (back in 1999) it was stopped by UK customs, diverted to see if they wanted to inspect it (hardcore porn was illegal here back then, for example)....but they obviously didn't bother as it was still sealed by the packing tape we used. Silly buggers, the porn was in the package labelled "LP records".

As a rule of thumb, we allow up to two months for a package to arrive when we send via surface mail...we'll be sending out our Christmas packages to friends and relatives next month.

Post by **mattias** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 5:55 pm

MovieStuff wrote:They will not seal up a container unless it is absolutely full

i figured something like that was the case, but wouldn't shipping time vary a lot more then? and i would imagine that even the swedish post alone would fill up a container rather quickly. yes, i know they are huge but still?

/matt

Post by **MovieStuff** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 6:20 pm

mattias wrote:
MovieStuff wrote:They will not seal up a container unless it is absolutely full
i figured something like that was the case, but wouldn't shipping time vary a lot more then?

They do, actually. Shipping by boat is very cheap but I have packages sit on the docks for 6 weeks waiting for the container to get filled.

Roger

Post by **Juergen** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 6:32 pm

the container topic wouldn't explain why some US customers already have their copies and others not. all was shipped the same day. so I think there must be local problems, too.

Post by **Lunar07** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 6:49 pm

carlweston wrote:
npcoombs wrote:
carlweston wrote:still no sign of my magazine

as of 09.26.05
who cares?
This is the same idiot that shot an important project with a used super8 camera with out actually testing that dam camera. Then this idiot came to this forum crying like a bitch and or little girlÃ¢â‚¬Â¦Fake ass filmmaker.."I'm never gonna use super8 again..it hurt my feelings"...

I do not know what the issue is between the two of you (carlweston and npcoombs), but I can hardly describe npcoombs as a 'fake ass filmmaker.' From the looks of it, he is a heavy duty filmmaker, and he is good at it too.

Ah and one more thing: September 27, 2005 - Summer is almost over, changes of weather in the air - the little birdies are migrating south, a little hummingbird from Nebraska was reported to have reached the southern tip of Chile, and I have yet to see my copy of SmallFormat.

Post by **carlweston** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 7:40 pm

Lunar07 wrote:
carlweston wrote:
npcoombs wrote: who cares?
This is the same idiot that shot an important project with a used super8 camera with out actually testing that dam camera. Then this idiot came to this forum crying like a bitch and or little girlÃ¢â‚¬Â¦Fake ass filmmaker.."I'm never gonna use super8 again..it hurt my feelings"...
I do not know what the issue is between the two of you (carlweston and npcoombs), but I can hardly describe npcoombs as a 'fake ass filmmaker.' From the looks of it, he is a heavy duty filmmaker, and he is good at it too.

Ah and one more thing: September 27, 2005 - Summer is almost over, changes of weather in the air - the little birdies are migrating south, a little hummingbird from Nebraska was reported to have reached the southern tip of Chile, and I have yet to see my copy of SmallFormat.

I seen some of his work.......boooooooring........Now I'm off to see if my copy of smallformat has arrived..

Post by **ccortez** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 8:12 pm

Lunar07 wrote: Ah and one more thing: September 27, 2005 - Summer is almost over, changes of weather in the air - the little birdies are migrating south, a little hummingbird from Nebraska was reported to have reached the southern tip of Chile, and I have yet to see my copy of SmallFormat.

Same here. Maybe all the Austin orders will be received on the same day.

But Lunar, "changes of weather in the air"? Maybe, but not for the better, at least not yet. If I'm not mistaken, we had the HOTTEST TEMPERATURE ON THE PLANET yesterday, a broiling 107 degrees!

8O

Post by **carlweston** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 9:55 pm

On 09.27.05 my copy of Smallformat arrived :lol: